I rarely had to create any complex layouts for printing with Flex, until now. The layout has to have different pages, with different elements on them. The issue is that the PrintDataGrid calculated it's height right (well, almost) at the first page, but maintained this value to the rest of the pages - instead of recalculating based on that structures.

Yesterday I realized that Adobe Air 2.0 is out of beta, and became Release Candidate, so I decided it's time to mess up my workstation with it, and try one of the most interesting features, the flash.desktop.NativeProcess.

Just a quick note. I had to validate the sum of a DataGrid column after the user enters some quantities. The solution seemed to be obvious, but needs some tricking.

Todays lesson about AMFPHP and ByteArrays. Let me share some experience about sending ByteArrays to AMFPHP, store them in BLOB fields in MySQL, and after send them back to a Flash client.

Have you ever have troubles with filtering or sorting an ArrayCollection into two different controls? I wanted to keep the central data source for the different views, it has many advantages. If a new item appears in your original ArrayCollection, it will added to all views, for example.